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FM18 All-European (Less England) Small Club to Big Club Challenge
Introduction
Welcome to a new chapter in the history of the ‘Euro Nation’ Challenge, born out of the recent history of the highly successful Gundo’s Challenge and the Big Euro Nation Challenge that spawned out of it. Originally set up as an alternative to the hugely successful Dafuges Challenge for FM06, Gundos Challenge offered an alternative for people who wanted to play in another European country. The Big Euro Nation Challenge followed for FM08 and, like Gundo’s Challenge, has had some fantastic stories over the years. These threads have always been hugely popular and successful thanks to those who played, and who still take part, in the challenges. Some of the stories are legendary, and hopefully more of these will be born in this, and future, versions of the game.
The premise of the challenge is the same, and simple, to start with a previously unplayable club and taking them all the way to a National Title and then on to winning the European Champions League. With a variety of leagues, styles of play, different rules, and many different locations for your clubs there can be a lot of variety throughout the thread, providing a great atmosphere and stories for our users to become immersed in.
General Challenge Info
Possible Countries
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France - June 20th
Germany
Greece
Holland *
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland *
Israel
Italy - July 30th
N. Ireland - 25th June
Norway - January 13th
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Scotland
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain - July 10th
Sweden - December 15th
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
Wales
* Holiday for two seasons not one.
League Reset Dates
Austria - 13th June
Belarus
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Holland *
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland *
Israel
Italy
N. Ireland
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Scotland
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
Wales
The Rules
A) Game Set-up
1) Load One Nation Only (All Available Divisions within your nation)
2) Your choice of Database Size (Large Recommended)
3) NO Edited Databases of any kind
4) Customising Database
You can add players to the database up to a limit of 100,000 in total in order to add more depth to your save and also add more difficulty down the line.
Suggested Adds
Players from Top Clubs/Top Divisions (Europe or All Continents) - This increases the challenge at Continental Level
Players Based in your Nation - This can add up to 50% more players to your game
Players Based in your Region (Central Europe/East Europe/UK & Ireland) - This can add extra players likely to join your club
There will be a file correcting the club/competition names, I will advise use of this.
NO other additional customising is allowed.
5) Attribute Masking should be Enabled
6) Disable Ingame Editor (Please do this)
7) Optional Ticks
Add Key Staff (This will give you a Scout, Physio & Ass Man by generating them if your club is without)
Add Players in Playable Nations (This will ensure all clubs have a minimum number of players, generating them if needed)
The extra levels of detail that you can change while in the game are up to you, as they shouldn't make a difference.
B) Steps in the Game
1) Add an unemployed manager; you will not use this man to manage your club. I like "Unemployed Man or Holiday Man"
2) Go on holiday until the reset date of your chosen nation (Should take about an hour)
TIP -
Changing
Detail Level to None
will make it go faster. (Remember to change it back afterwards)
TIP - Saving on the day before this date may give you a better choice of teams by reloading the game then going on holiday for one day, I would strongly recommend trying this.
3) Add a new manager - Use yourself, or a created character to help build a story line
a) Personal Details
- Your Choice
b) Tracksuit vs. Trainer
- Your Choice
c) Past Experience lowest Possible (Generally Sunday League)
d) Coaching Licenses lowest Possible (None)
e) Other options are up to you
TIP - If you add the language of your country of choice it will make it easier at the beginning
TIP - Training now includes you at some level depending on your abilities.
4) Choose to take over any club which has been promoted to the bottom playable league of your nation.
TIP - Easiest way in FM17 to see this is on the "Season Review" screen, showing the "Promoted Clubs"
TIP - You can confirm your club by checking the Domestic History's page for not being at this level since start of game
5) Retire your unemployed manager.
6) Manage your club to National Title & European Champions League Victory
7) Completing the Challenge.
C) Signing of Players
1) You must be able to scout them
TIP - You don't actually have to scout them, just be able to
TIP - You can check your scouting range on the Scouting page
2) Alternatively (If you can't scout them), you must bring them on a trial first
3) You are able to sign anyone sent to you via Agent Offer
TIP - Make sure you screenshot the Agent offer
4) In later versions you can get your DoF to find players, he will bring in players not in Scouting Range, these are also allowed.
TIP - Grab a screenshot of your DoF signing them
D) Posting
1) Player naming is allowed. (This is a warning for those of you who do not wish to see this)
2) Discussion of tactics is allowed. (This is another warning for those of you who do not wish to see this)
Expected Updates
We have minimum expectations when it comes to a first up post and also in the end of season updates. The Bold pages are necessary for everyone; the others are some suggestions that will get others interested in your posts and following your club. All other screenshots are welcome and encouraged, but we please ask that the majority are posted as links, because lots of pictures can make the page very slow to load.
First Post:
Domestic Leagues History (Club)
Profile (Manager)
Overview (Club)
Squad (Club)
End of Season Updates:
Transfers (Club) - This is so we can see the ins & outs
League Table (Competition)
Squad (Club)
Information (Manager)
Profile (Manager)
Information (Club)
Profile (Players)
Progress of your club should be documented using this thread; we want to hear the story of your club all the way through. Please keep us updated, even if you are doing badly. If you title your end of season report in bold this makes it easier to identify. Everyone will be supportive, and really get into your game if you give more detail.
E) Other
1. If you are Sacked
1. You can Restart from the beginning or;
2. Continue your game and pick a new club (Under Same Rules) at the end of the next season or;
3. Add another Euro League/Remove Current League, holiday a whole season and continue
1. You can still only have one nation running at a time
2. Once the league becomes active you MUST holiday a full season
3. The club must be one of those unplayable from the beginning
2. No Restrictions on Parent or Feeder Clubs
3. International Management allowed from FM14 forwards (But you cannot start as an International Manager)
The use of any external utilities and editors (Such as Genie Scout or FMM) are prohibited. As of FM14 there are also unlockables, these are also prohibited, please don't use them. It would be appreciated if you also ticked the box at the start which prevents the use of the ingame editor.
How to Post a Screenshot
1) While in FM, press the 'Prt Sc' button (usually next to F12 on your keyboard).
2) Open an image editing program such as Paint and paste the image
3) Save the file as a JPEG or PNG
4) Upload the image to an image hosting website such as Photobucket or Imageshack
5) Post the direct URL to the image here.
Alternatively using ALT + F9 in game saves a screenshot to your user data folder. (You can also edit this in the shortcuts options)
The Euro Nation Motivational
I would like to thank all of you who choose to participate in this thread this year, and to wish everyone taking on this challenge the best of luck on a long and hard journey to managerial success! I have personally had a number of hugely enjoyable saves over the years, first in Gundos challenge and then latterly in the Big Euro Nation Challenge. The atmosphere and support these threads have historically offered is key in making the thread, and your saves more enjoyable as I can testify to. I and some of the other regulars of these threads are here to help for the new challengers and hope everybody that participates contributes considerably to the thread. There is nothing better than getting immersed not only in your own game but providing the encouragement to other people's attempts too. Remember we are all fighting the same battle - to defeat the AI (and uncover fabulous newgens!) - Therefore it goes without saying that any form of cheating will be severely chastised. Don't do it! I know that it is painful to lose a European Final or to lose the title on the final day (I have been there myself on more than one occasion) but eventual success down the line is all the sweeter for those defeats.
Good luck to all the participants – Here’s to a successful (and enjoyable) version!!

Budapest, Hungary, 29th of May 2017.
Breaking news! The Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre Budapest Futball Club, most commonly known as MTK Budapest, with MTK standing for, according to Wikipedia, "Circle of Hungarian Fitness Activists" (I **** you not), appears to have appointed an unknown young Bulgarian-Romanian manager of his name Henrik Santinescu.
Who are MTK Budapest and why should I care?
Presumably after doing this exercise whilst signing the Kumbaya and munching protein bars, in whatever was the equivalent of a Crossfit class in the 1880s, a bunch of lads in Budapest decided this would be a great name for a club, and started one. Eventually, it would morph into something that actually has a pretty cool looking crest:
Also, ****ing cool kits:
(disregard the terrified-looking players)
Most importantly this is a team with history. You'd be forgiven for not remembering the 1964 Cup Winners Cup final but they lost the final to Sporting Lisbon, of all ****ing teams in the world. I'm making a point of calling Sporting Lisbon, Sporting Lisbon, and this was an embarrassment that obviously haunts MTK to this day, and needs to be set straight by winning big things. In other news they also won the odd TWENTY THREE Hungarian titles in the mean time as well, but nobody cares about those.
Their stadium is named after Nándor Hidegkuti, a legend of the Puskas generation, mostly known for helping smash England in the famous friendly at Wembley in an unheard-of deep-lying/false-nine kind striker role.
What's up with the Bulgarian-Romanian manager and what's the challenge?
Hi
The concept at the moment is, uhhh, a work in progress but basically what I'm gonna try to do here is revive the days of my FM15 CSKA Sofia challenge where I tried to build the strongest team possible all made of Eastern European nationalities. Now if you happen to be Hungarian and reading this, you are already probably fuming at the name "Eastern Europe" when you really really want to be called "Central Europe" instead, but I'm sorry to announce that for the sake of wrong geography and easier FM playing, everyone East of the Iron Curtain is fair game to sign here.
I also never managed in Hungary for whatever strange bizarre random reason, and everyone has done Honved a billion times due to Puskas, so why not pick up another historical side instead. I like Hungary after having a really nice time in Budapest earlier this year, top city. Top history in the game too, and at some point I'd love to pick up the national side even if I won't be building exclusively Hungarian players only in here.
For now the idea is to sign only Under 21 players from Iron Curtain nationalities. This is restrictive enough that should force me to bet on youth quite a bit!
The Bulgarian and Romanian nationalities of the manager should hopefully also help us catch some talent from these nations, that just like Hungary, were known in the past for producing some fine players, although they peaked in the 1990s and Hungary was far earlier...
So what's MTK up to nowadays?
They're ****ed. Just went down to the 2nd tier.
We do have a B team playing in the league below us, which I've activated thanks to Claassen's excellent files. And this is our squad as it stands:
We're favourites to go up as the strongest side in the league. Which puts me under a little pressure, but should make for a nice first warmup season if things go to plan.
That's all great. But can you give me instead some boring technical screenshots about how the game is setup and ****?
Sure.